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Weekly Update – Spector on the move

This week’s Weekly has my Q&A with artist/gallerist Shelley Spector whose gallery is closing after a 7-year run on Bainbridge St. The copy’s below and here’s the link to the art page. We on artblog are massive Shelley-philes so you will find reams of reports about her and her gallery in our index on the left. Shelley Shock After seven years at the forefront of Philly’s art scene, Spector Gallery shuts its doors. Shelley Spector at the 2-floor-spanning installation of her own work at Painted Bride in September, 2005. After running the hippest art space in the city for more ... More » »

Weekly Update – Wright and Wallacavage at Spector

AJWOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Psychedelic pattern painting by Andrew Jeffrey Wright. Click image to see it bigger. This week’s Weekly has my review of Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Adam Wallacavage’s exhibits at Spector Gallery. Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with a few more pictures. As usual, see my flickr set for more images. The Wright StuffSpector Gallery presents one of the sassiest shows of the year. Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s second solo exhibit at Spector Gallery, “Art World,” is one of the smartest and sassiest shows of the year. All Wright’s familiar motifs are ... More » »

More on comic book crewel

I was wondering about a thing or two after I wrote the previous post on Xiang Yang, so I talked to gallerist Shelley Spector. The show included 72 pieces, and the images come out of popular magazines and other pop culture sources. If the tension on the threads is uneven, they will sag or pull, so Xiang stays focused on each piece until it is completed. Some of the pieces take four of five days (and he does eat and sleep; he just doesn’t switch to another project or put the project aside). I had been thinking about how this ... More » »

Earnest youth and comic book crewel at Spector

If you’re not familiar with the portraits of Rebecca Westcott, you can see them this month at Spector Gallery. Westcott’s portraits of young adults–her crowd–against fairly blank backgrounds capture their earnestness, their tentativeness, and their everyday clothes. Unlike Elizabeth Peyton, who’s working the same age group and paints only the cool, flattened stares of languid youth posing for Ralph Lauren, Westcott gets personal. I also like the contrast between traditional portraiture–of people who can pay for their likenesses–and these pictures of the young, not-yet-successful who are still a little unformed (like the backgrounds) and finding their way in the world. ... More » »